By Sarah Breger Tensions Boil over at the AIPAC conference "New construction in East Jerusalem or the West Bank undermines mutual trust and endangers the proximity talks that are the first step toward the full negotiations that both sides want and need," said Hillary Clinton at the...
By Sarah Breger IN CELEBRATION OF ST. PATRICK-STEIN'S DAY In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, The Wall Street Journal reviews If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews, a new album recreating music from the days of vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley when Jewish and Irish...
By Symi Rom-Rymer The New York Times recently published a piece recently about a former Polish neo-Nazi who discovered his Jewish roots as an adult and is now ultra-Orthodox. As he acknowledges in the article, “he was drawn to extremes.” Pawel’s (now Pinchas’) story is certainly engrossing. ...
By Symi Rom-Rymer This year’s Oscars brought us some surprises (Sandra Bullock), some truly painful dance sequences (I’m looking at you Adam Shankman), and some deserving winners (The Hurt Locker). It also proved, once again, that Hollywood wouldn’t be funny without the Jews. From a running gag...
By Sarah Breger MILLIONS OF CATHOLICS ARE OF JEWISH ANCESTRY Steve Jones of the UK Telegraph examines the complex issues of religious identity and DNA, finding that "Y chromosomes reveal much leakage across the religious divide. A fifth of all the male lineages of modern Spain are...
By Michelle Albert Last May, a 17 year-old girl in Utah paid a man $150 dollars to beat her up—kicking her in the stomach—in the hopes of inducing a miscarriage. The baby survived, and the assailant was sent to jail, reports the New York Times. Now, a...
By Symi Rom-Rymer On International Holocaust Memorial Day (January 27) this year, a report from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) was released outlining the current Holocaust education curriculum in EU secondary schools. The report advocates linking the study of that era with more...
By Michelle Albert Washington, DC has legalized gay marriage. [NYTimes] The Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum is pushing what might be the last call for names of Jews murdered during the Holocaust. [JPost] In Gaza, Hamas has banned male hairdressers from cutting and styling women's hair. The eight male...
By Caroline Kessler So, it's been a little over a week since I've returned from the gathering of the tribe that I previously mentioned: Jewlicious Festival 6.0. I've already written a tiny bit about it, mostly scribbled notes to myself and a blog post on New...
By Michelle Albert Gird your phone lines: The Senate has voted to extend the US Patriot Act for another year. [WashingtonPost] A bill up for vote in the United Kingdom would allow same-sex couples to marry in British synagogues and other places of worship. As it is...
